When you want to know what's cool, you ask a teenager.
You have to ask her nicely or she will scowl you into oblivion or patronize you into a painful purgatory.
So I'd like to prepare you for some of this difficulty.
Teens have decided that Apple is, like, so over. If you want to be a veritable cooleratus, you want to be seen with a Samsung Galaxy phone in your hand or a Microsoft Surface laptoppy tabletstuck under your arm.
This definitive information comes to me courtesy of research performed by Buzz Marketing, as well as three 14-year-olds who tried to rob me of my orange Puma sneakers.
When they saw I had an iPhone, they couldn't even be bothered to take the sneakers. (I exaggerate slightly about this last element.)